Mayor Eric Garcetti to Join Housing Advocates, Labor Leaders, and
Community Organizations at L.A. Press Conference to Support Repeal of
Costa-Hawkins

L.A. PRESS CONFERENCE: Monday, April 23, 10:00 a.m.

Advocates to announce submission of a total of over 565,000 voter
signatures to County Registrars in all 58 California counties in support
of ballot initiative to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act.

Press Conferences also to be held at OaklandCity Hall and
the State Capitol in Sacramento

April 22, 2018 10:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time

LOS ANGELES--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--On Monday, April 23, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Councilmember
Mike Bonin (D-11th District) will join housing advocates,
labor leaders, community activists, and fellow elected officials in a
press conference outside Los Angeles City Hall (Spring Street Plaza
facing Grand Park) in support of the Affordable
Housing Act, which would repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act
of 1995. The advocates will announce the submission of over 565,000
voter signatures throughout the 58 counties in California to place the Affordable
Housing Act on the statewide November ballot.

The Affordable Housing Act will close the loophole in rent control
created by the Costa-Hawkins Act, which prohibits California communities
from setting reasonable and fair limits on rent increases and protecting
tenants through rent control on single family homes, condos, and
buildings built after 1995, or the year rent control was established
within a city – 1978 in the case of Los Angeles. (Costa-Hawkins
explained)

*Spokespeople available to outlets before and at event.
Spanish-speakers also available.

The Los Angeles press conference is a part of two other actions taking
place at the State Capitol in Sacramento and Oakland City Hall also on
Monday. Hundreds of renters, landlords, housing advocates, labor
leaders, clergy, community activists, and others displaced by
California’s housing affordability crisis will take part in all three of
the rallies.

The rent is too damn high! While evictions are creating a crisis in
California, thousands of people are being forced out of their homes and
the neighborhoods they grew up in, commuting hours to and from work, or
literally living on the streets. Hard-working people can't afford a
decent place to live. California can do better, and we need immediate
change to stop this wave of displacement to keep people in their homes.

Repealing the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act will give local
communities a critical tool to tackle the state’s housing crisis by
allowing them to implement more robust rent control if they feel it is
the right method for handling their residents’ needs.

The Affordable Housing Act is sponsored by the AIDS Healthcare
Foundation, the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE
Action), and the Eviction Defense Network.